Contemporary Kantian moral philosophy

Michael Rohlf

pp. 791-813

in: The Palgrave Kant handbook, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

Rohlf reviews and assesses Allen Wood's criticisms of John Rawls's Kantian constructivism as a way of presenting and commenting on some core issues in contemporary Kantian moral philosophy. He argues that the most promising approach to Kantian moral philosophy incorporates elements of both Rawls's and Wood's accounts, specifically Rawls's constructivist view of moral judgment and Wood's metaethical realist interpretation, but in the context of a conception of ethical theory that lies somewhere between Rawls's and Wood's.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel

Rawls John